CDU to Saxony-Anhalt: What Now, Mr Merz?
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Does the Union threaten a meltdown? The self-decomposition of the party, which Sven Schulze runs in Saxony-Anhalt, will spread to the CDU in the rest of the country.
The state election in Saxony-Anhalt is a turning point for the CDU and its Chancellor Friedrich Merz. 11KM analyses the disastrous CDU election result and its consequences.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz tried on Wednesday to regain his hand after the heavy defeat of his camp in the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt; the far right party AfD (anti-European Union, pro-Kremlin and very anti-migrants) won 43.8% of the vote (double that of five years ago), compared with just 17% [...] The article Earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt: the AfD crushes the CDU (43.8% vs. 17%) and caused Merz to wave first on Counterpoints.
In Germany, the CDU/CSU has fallen to 19.5 percent in a poll following the state election in Saxony-Anhalt. With the AfD at 29 percent, the lead is now a record nine and a half percentage points. Friedrich Merz today accused the AfD of wanting "ethnic cleansing" of Germany.
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